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Doyon Lumber Co. Fire

Date: 05 11 1947
Description: Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background.
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Wisconsin State Journal Building Fire

Date: 11 19 1947
Description: Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Building Fire

Date: 11 19 1947
Description: Fire truck at the corner of S. Carroll and W. Doty Streets putting out a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 S. Carroll Street. Other buil...
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Aerial Photograph of Brush Fires

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of two brush fires on the north side of Lake Mendota. Taken over the west side of Madison looking northwest across Lake Mendota.
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Dane County Jail Fire

Date: 05 15 1948
Description: Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e...
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Dane County Jail Fire

Date: 05 15 1948
Description: Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci...
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Windsor Fire

Date: 06 11 1948
Description: The lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company is engulfed in flames, which totally destroyed the building.
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Windsor Fire

Date: 06 11 1948
Description: Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total...
Poster

Apocalypse Film Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster featuring a skeleton on horseback, carrying a banner that reads, "Apocalypse". A skyline of Madison appears beneath, on fire, with the phrase "Heral...
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John Speranza with Wife and Two Children

Date: 10 31 1948
Description: John Speranza stands at the ruins of his store, dairy bar and home on Highways 12 & 18 south of Madison (2606 West Broadway). With him is his wife, Bertha ...
Poster

"Fire Holes" Exhibition Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for an exhibition titled "Fire Holes." Center burn image created by actually burning paper. Letterpress text below reads, "An exhibition...
Photograph

Speranza's Neighbors Dig Basement for New Shop

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper...
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Bascom Hall Fire

Date: 10 10 1916
Description: Elevated view over rooftops from the south of a fire which destroyed the Bascom Hall rotunda.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bed...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city gara...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street...

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